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Program Results Reports describe RWJF’s interest in the area and strategy for addressing the problem for those working in the field or interested in undertaking similar efforts. They explain the problem addressed; the activities undertaken; the results or findings from the work; lessons for the field; any post-grant activities—by the grantee or RWJF—and they include a bibliography of material produced during the project or program.

A research team led by Stephen M. Shortell and Lawrence P. Casalino tracked the extent to which physician organizations used evidence-based care management processes to treat patients with asthma, congestive heart failure, depression, and diabetes.

To combat isolation and loneliness among vulnerable individuals, including the disabled and frail elderly, the PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship and Tyze Personal Networks developed Web-based social support networks called Tyze.

Victor R. Fuchs studied the factors that affect health care expenditures and health and policy solutions for covering the uninsured and reducing the high cost of health care, resulting in more than 50 publications.

The Health Insurance Reform Project worked with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to help design a program to improve the quality of care and life for people with multiple chronic illnesses.

The Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce from the Institute of Medicine puts forth a plan to ensure that the workforce is sufficient in both size and skill to handle the needs of a new generation of older Americans.

The Alliance for Aging Research conceptualized, organized and laid the groundwork for a blue ribbon commission holding hearings throughout the United States to increase awareness about the growing challenges posed by an aging U.S. population.